So, let us “Jump Right In,” as the subhead read over a story in the Boston Globe:
“Lake Placid, its bid brochure proclaimed, was up where the mountains meet the sky and the deep, white snows of winter say to young and old, ‘Come up and play!’
“When the village won the nod ...
One of my favorite poets is Emily Dickinson. I don’t remember being exposed to her work in school, which is a pity, since so much of it is perfect for young minds.
What, specifically, do I like about it? Well, it illustrates profound insights in the simplest and clearest terms. A lot of her ...
In 1932, the annual meeting of the Stevenson Society of America was held, per custom, at the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Cottage in Saranac Lake, on Aug. 25. The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by Col. Walter Scott, president. Following the obligatory religious invocation, Col. Scott ...
The housing crisis in Saranac Lake, Lake Placid and the greater Adirondack region has prevented many local employees from easily obtaining a place to live that is within a reasonable commute, and that asks an affordable rent. There was only one reasonably priced apartment in the area when I was ...
North Country residents have mourned the January death of Russell Banks. We lost not just a great and famous writer, but a person who encouraged and supported artistic efforts in the Adirondacks. He served, for example, on the advisory board of the Adirondack Center for Writing, and was ...